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This is basically the [[Spinoff Babies]] trope applied to real people. The idea is to take [[Historical Domain Character
If the person lived long enough ago that details of their adolescence or youth are obscure or even nonexistent, then this trope may be used as an excuse to ground an entirely fictional story in reality. Sometimes these characters are the leading characters, other times they may only serve as a fictional [[Cameo]] or a [[Shout-Out]] to a [[Historical In-Joke]].
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Obviously a standard trope in [[Historical Fiction]]. See also [[Historical Domain Character]] and [[In the Past Everyone Will Be Famous]]. Can overlap with [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]], as, for example, when a minor character in a movie turns out to be the author of the book the movie is based on.
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== Young Future Famous People as lead characters
=== [[Film]] ===
* ''1814'' is a Russian movie about several key figures of the Golden Age of Russian Literature, such as Pushkin, Delwig and Kuchelbecker (as well as the ''Russian'' Iron Chancellor, Gorchakov, often considered Bismarck's [[The Rival|archrival]] in international politics) when they were students at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, aged [[Title Drop|from 14 to 18]]. The same applies to the first part of the Yuri Tynyanov novel ''Kyuchlya'', which partly inspired it.
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== Young Future Famous People as supporting characters
=== [[Anime and Manga]] ===
* In ''[[Black Butler]]'', a young eye specialist and insignificant writer named Arthur was invited to Ciel's dinner party, only to be caught up in a murder mystery. After he finds out {{spoiler|Ciel works for the Queen, Sebastain is a demon and they framed a man for someone's murder and they let Arthur live with this knowledge}}, it is heavily implied Arthur does become [[Arthur Conan Doyle|a famous mystery writer]], though his middle and last name are never revealed.
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=== [[Literature]] ===
* The ''[[1632]]'' series by Eric Flint:
** Has a cameo appearance by an infant Baruch Spinoza,<ref>
** Young Rembrandt becomes a famous artist when people learn that in the future-that-was, he was a famous artist. This happens to quite a few people who haven't done anything yet, and most of 'em are driven ''crazy'' by the attention and expectations.
*** Rembrandt though does decide not to paint the paintings that are going to be famous, instead painting new ones.
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